text of image: Very young black girl holding hands with White Jesus. She asks Jesus why are you white? Jesus answers “Because I’m a psychological tool. By creating the image of a white God, this subliminally engrains the myth of white superiority into the subconscious minds.”
#white #Jesus #psychology #tool #supremacy #racism #hierarchy
#Jesus #JesusTakeTheWheel #2024-01 #lol #funny #christianity
It's a good song, just don't sing it ALL the time, ok?
Nobody really knows when Christ was born.
Most scholars think that December 25 was chosen when the Romans decided they needed a new state religion, to give a little extra umph to their collapsing empire— and this was just the most convenient time to celebrate.
From the Coliseums to Cathedrals
The Romans had noticed that Christians were pretty dedicated—going to their deaths in the Coliseum—not perhaps cheerfully—but strengthened by their beliefs. The Romans respected courage and loyalty.
Although Constantine is credited with legalizing Christianity—there had been a movement towards toleration, if not inclusion, well before him—with various generals issuing edicts of toleration to recruit Christians into the legions.
Early Christians were apparently not all pacifists.
These…umm ”Christians” were also not of one mind.
Christianity began as an offshoot of Judaism—one might say created by Paul, who was a Jew and therefore believed in only one God— and had never met Jesus while he was alive. In his writings, Paul does not specifically say that Jesus is God. In fact, many early Christians did not believe that Christ was divine.
“Son of God”?
The term “Son of God” was often used in Israel to designate virtuous and godly people —and cannot be taken literally. Paul and others tend to use expressions of this kind in this way.
In any event, Constantine could not have a state religion with so many different interpretations—hence the Council of Nicaea— which among other things dumped about 80 Gospels in favor of just four— and created a creed – “I believe in the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost”— a sort of compromise polytheism— which the Romans found easy to accept.
At this time, up to 50% of Christians, especially Ebonites and Arians, did not believe in the divinity of Christ.
In any case, the rulers of the empire got their new state religion— the question was how to sell it. How to convince people to accept the transition? The Trinity was helpful, but something more was needed.
Saturnalia
Since the festival of Saturnalia was held December 25—the birthday of Sol Invictus and Mithras – what better day to celebrate the birth of Christ! I'm not sure how the sex orgies, gluttony, and drunkenness fitted in. But….what's life without a little ambivalence?
https://www.bitchute.com/video/b1bsJnTxY7uA/
Blessed ARRIVAL of The #STAR. #JESUS Was ANNOUNCED AS A STAR. Is It REALLY That OBVIOUS?
#Luke 23:34: “Then said Jesus, Father, #forgive them; for they know not what they do.
And they parted his raiment, and cast lots.”
Psalms 78:38: “But he, [being] full of #compassion, forgave [their] iniquity, and destroyed [them] not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.”
1John 1:7 But if we walk in the #light, as he is in the light, we have #fellowship one with another, and the blood of #Jesus #Christ his Son #cleanseth us from all #sin.
#Psalms 51:7: “Purge me with #hyssop, and I shall be #clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than #snow.”
The word in #Greek for #forgiveness is #aphes which means to send away, leave alone, depart or release and pardon.
The word in #Aramaic is #shavaq which is the word used for divorce, the ending of a marriage as well as pardon.
In #Hebrew, the word for forgiveness is #chaphar which means to cover up or cover over and pardon.
#All these words have the idea of a pardon. In a sense what Jesus was saying when He said: “Father forgive them” was that he was granting them a pardon.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=5xjjLClF-uM
#How to pronounce #Kṣamā | Kshama ( #Sanskrit #word)
#Jesus #cristão #sionismo #genocídio #Palestina #Gaza #israel #colonialismo #apartheid #Natal
The Archangel Gabriel brings a message from The God Of The Impossible.
- God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth with a message for Mary, who was promised in marriage to Joseph. The angel told Mary that she would have a son, whom she was to name Jesus. The angel said, “He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High God.” Mary asked how this could be as she was a virgin.
#Israel #judah #jesus
JUDAH
Star of David
Jesus was a Jew. His mother Mary was a descendant on her father's side from the royal Tribe of Judah, and on her mother's from the priestly Tribe of Levi. Joseph, the husband of Mary, was a Jew from the priestly Tribe of Levi.
Judah and The House of David
St. Matthew makes clear in recounting Jesus' genealogy that he was of the Tribe of Judah. (Matt. 1:1-6; 16-18).
Matthew's genealogy of Jesus Christ traces His lineage through King David of Israel, Judah, and Abraham (Matthew 1:1–3)
Luke: Jesus is a member of the Tribe of Judah according to his maternal bloodline. (Luke 3:31-34).
- Joseph and Mary had four sons and two daughters together. They are the half brothers and sisters of Jesus.
- "Is not his mother called Mary? And are not his brothers James and Joseph and Simon and Judas? And are not all his sisters with us?"
(Matthew 13.54-56). Matthew 1.25 also implies the married couple assumed a normal relationship following the birth of Jesus: "but [Joseph] knew her not until she had borne a son; and he called his name Jesus."
[T]he #Christmas story actually is a Palestinian story, par excellence. It talks about a family in Nazareth, in the north of #Palestine, that is ordered by an imperial decree of the Romans to evacuate to Bethlehem, to go there and register. And this is exactly what our people in #Gaza has been experiencing these 75 days. It talks about Mary, the pregnant woman, on the run, exactly like 50,000 women in Gaza who are actually displaced. Jesus was born actually as a #refugee.
[…]
And you have this message that the angels declared here, “Glory to God in the highest, #peace on Earth”, which was actually a critique of the #empire, because glory belongs to the Almighty and not to the mighty. And the peace that #Jesus came to proclaim is not the peace, the Pax Romana, the peace that is based on #subjugation and #military operation, but on human #dignity, #equality and #justice. And this is actually what we call for.
— Rev. Mitri Raheb, source
#Gaza #Palestine #genocide #Christmas #PaxAmericana #PaxRomana
Weihnachtskrippen in Italien
Von Michael Braun
Nicht nur Deutschlands Rechte fürchten das Ende traditioneller Weihnachtsbräuche. Italienische Politiker machen sich für ein Krippen-Schutzgesetz stark.
Kolumne: Stadtgespräch
Schwerpunkt: Weihnachten 2023
#taz #tageszeitung #Italien #Lega #rechte #Parteien #Krippe #Jesus
Nicht nur Deutschlands Rechte fürchten das Ende traditioneller Weihnachtsbräuche. Italienische Politiker machen sich für ein Krippen-Schutzgesetz stark.#Italien #Lega #rechteParteien #Krippe #Jesus #KolumneStadtgespräch #Europa #Politik #Serie
Weihnachtskrippen in Italien: Canceln auf Italienisch
#Altar of #Zeus ? at #Pergamon, #Turkey: the #Throne-of-Satan
And to the angel of the congregation that is in Pergamon write: “Thus says the one who has the sharp, two-edged sword:
‘I know where you dwell, where the throne of #Satan is, and you hold fast to my name and you did not deny my faith even in the days of Antipas, my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.’”
(Revelation 2:12–13)
On a symbolic level, the “throne of Satan” mentioned in this passage represents a power in opposition to #God, a power that is embodied in Roman imperial might. Throughout Revelation, a system of symbols associates Satan, depicted as a #dragon or #serpent, with the #Roman #Empire and emperor depicted as a #beast.
Unlike other early Christian writers, #John the #prophet did not encourage his audience to honor and obey the emperor, but instead encouraged—by means of his symbols and rhetoric—resistance.
In principle, during the first century C.E., Roman officials tolerated believers in #Jesus as the Messiah insofar as they could be regarded as Jews. Jews were expected to honor the emperor and to pray for his welfare, as well as for the welfare of the empire. As monotheists, however, they were normally not expected to worship the emperor, as most Greeks and Hellenized provincials did with enthusiasm. Nero’s police action against the Christians of Rome in 64 C.E., however, apparently set a precedent for executing Christians merely for being such, and by the time of Trajan (emperor from 98–117 C.E.). Christians who refused to curse Jesus Christ and to worship the emperor, along with the traditional gods, were liable to execution as stubborn adherents of “superstition.” #Nero’s action marks the beginning of the end of Roman acceptance of Christianity as a Jewish movement.
John’s imagery in #Revelation is more than symbolic, however. The very explicit association the author makes between the “throne of Satan” and the city of Pergamon suggests that something visible in the city inspired the phrase. Taken together, the #archaeological and textual #evidence points to the same candidate: the Great Altar of Pergamon, one of the most significant (and stunning) monuments to survive from the Greco-Roman world. To John of Revelation, it is the “throne of Satan.”
Pergamon (modern #Bergama, in Turkey) is located on the Caicus River in western #Asia-Minor in the region traditionally called Mysia. In John’s time, Mysia was part of the Roman province of Asia.
The oldest part of the city is the acropolis, which is considerably higher and steeper than the acropolis of Athens. The earliest record of settlement comes from Xenophon, a Greek who lived in the fourth century B.C.E. He writes about Pergamon’s role in the Spartan campaigns of 399 B.C.E.1 In the third century B.C.E. Pergamon was the center of the Hellenistic kingdom of the Attalids. When the last Attalid king died in 133 B.C.E., he willed his kingdom to Rome, and the Romans transformed the old Attalid kingdom into their province of Asia. Pergamon was one of the three most prominent cities of that province (along with Ephesus and Smyrna). Pergamon continued to be a leading city until the fourth century C.E.
The ruins of the ancient city visible today include a temple dedicated to the emperor Trajan and a theater on the top of the acropolis. The base of the Great Altar lies prominently on a terrace on the southern slope of the acropolis. A lower city circled the base of the acropolis. A road led from there to a compound dedicated to the god Asklepios. This compound served as a medical center, a spa and a center for rhetoric and the arts, as well as a shrine to the deity.
The Pergamon altar itself is now housed in the Pergamon Museum in Berlin. In the second half of the 19th century, stones from the ancient citadel on the acropolis of Pergamon were being burned in order to procure lime, so excavations sponsored by the Berlin Museum were carried out between 1878 and 1886. The Great Altar and many of its sculptures were removed with permission of the authorities in Turkey and taken to the museum in Berlin.
The purpose of Pergamon’s Great Altar is uncertain and continues to provoke debate. Was it a real altar on which meat from sacrificed animals would be burned or was it a victory monument with no sacrificial function?2
As for its date, however, a consensus has emerged that the Great Altar was constructed during the reign of the Attalid king Eumenes II, who was born in 221 B.C.E. and reigned from 197 to 159 B.C.E.3 It is likely that the altar was intended as a monument celebrating the victories of Eumenes II’s predecessors, as well as his own, including the Roman victory over the Seleucid king Antiochus III, with the assistance of Eumenes II, in 189 B.C.E. The altar was never completed,4 but it was unquestionably one of the city’s most important landmarks in antiquity.
https://library.biblicalarchaeology.org/article/satans-throne/
I think if Jesus is to be born today, he would be born under the rubble in Gaza with those who are suffering.
love god now
BRACE YOURSELF: Jesus’ TRUE Teachings! It’ll Give You GOOSEBUMPS! | John Davis
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BRACE YOURSELF: Jesus’ TRUE Teachings! It’ll Give You GOOSEBUMPS! | John Davis
